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PIGTALE
Brew pal Ovi Nedelcu’s new comic PIGTALE debuts on January 12, 2005. Ovi has worked as a character designer/visual development artist on …
Amid Amidi
Brad Bird Interview
There’s an insightful interview with Brad Bird at AnimationTrip.com. Here’s Brad talking about creating personality through …
Remembering Frank Thomas
Tom Sito has written a very nice remembrance of Disney legend Frank Thomas and what his passing means to the animation community. It is …
Meet Chris Harding
Meet my new favorite animation artist of the moment: Chris Harding. I’d never heard of him until yesterday when I ran across his name on …
More on Product Placement In Cartoons
A couple Brew readers wrote in to correct some of my recent sloppy reportage. In this ITEM posted on paid product placements in …
Japanese Doing It RIght
On his excellent blog AniPages Daily, Ben Ettinger discusses a show that airs on NHK (“Japan’s PBS,” as he puts it) called DIGITAL …
Men Need Not Apply
An inappropriate response to this book: “Remember the good old days when they were content just to be ink-and-paint girls?” Read more …
Incredibles Review
Last night, I walked into the theater hopeful but prepared for disappointment. After waiting for THE INCREDIBLES for what has seemed like …
Monday Inspiration
Currently up for auction, a painting by Ward Kimball with gorgeous color and design. (Thanks, Shane)
Product Placement In Cartoons
Another sad day in modern animation history (and it sure seems like we have a lot of them). The NY TIMES reports that Comedy Central’s …
Ottawa ’04 Report
I’m still working on my Ottawa Animation Festival write-up, and by “working on” I mean procrastinating, so in the meantime, take a look …
The Politics of the Incredibles
This article in the NY TIMES interviews Brad Bird about the beneath-the-surface politics of THE INCREDIBLES: If such scenes provide some …
Engel and Braxton History
Here’s a two-minute VIDEO CLIP of the late Jules Engel discussing a conflict he had with Walt Disney about a cartoon frog. He also takes …
Note To Don Bluth
RE: Your new “Scissor Sisters” music videoNobody wants to see a male striptease in animation…EVER.PS: The year is 2004, not 1984. Stop …
Cartoon Edukasion
This 3-hour Windows Media lecture by character designer Chen Yi-Chang (MULAN, TARZAN, ATLANTIS) contains a lot of solid insights. Also, …
Karl Cohen On THE INCREDIBLES
Animation historian and ASIFA-San Francisco prez Karl Cohen saw THE INCREDIBLES yesterday. Here’s what he thinks of it: Brad Bird is …
Alfred J. Kwak
I had the pleasure of meeting Harald Siepermann at Annecy earlier this year. He’s another one of those incredible animation talents whose …
Cheap Laffs
Miniature babies in celluloid peanuts, whoopee cushions and vibrating eyes. Cartoonist Mark Newgarden will be speaking about these …
A Little Abstraction
It’s not often that a trailer for an abstract/non-narrative animated short interests me enough to want to write about it, but the trailer …
INCREDIBLES WRAP PARTY Reports
Here’s a few journal comments from various Pixarians who attended THE INCREDIBLES wrap party a couple weeks ago: RotoMonkey.org: “The …
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